Rimshots: Basketball Pix, Rolls, and Rhythms

With the rhythms of a bouncing basketball, the sounds of shuffling, scuffling feet, and the swishing of baskets, the poet-photographer expresses his love of basketball in a manner that draws the reader powerfully inside his passion for the game. The fine, sepia-toned pictures are purposely anonymous.

Kemie Nix is Chairman of Children's Literature for Children (CLC), a non-profit, tax-exempt, educational organization dedicated to bringing children and books together. Mrs. Nix, a senior book editor for Parents' Choice, has a remarkable sense of selecting books children love to read.